Increase Blog Traffic - Tactics & Tips

It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we've grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post. There's an art to increasing a blog's traffic, and given that we seem to have stumbled on some of that knowledge, I felt it compulsory to give back by sharing what we've observed. NOTE: This post replaces a popular one I wrote on the same topic in 2007. This post is intended to be useful to all forms of bloggers - independent folks, those seeking to monetize, and marketing professionals working an in-house blog from tiny startups to huge companies. Not all of the tactics will work for everyone, but at least some of these should be applicable and useful. #1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share When strategizing about who you're...

9 Strategies For Ranking Higher In Search Engines

When it comes to getting your website to rank higher in Google, there are some things you need to be mindful of. What I want to do is give you some tips that you can use to not only rank higher in with your site, but generate more income from the work you put into your website. Write For People Not Machines: While content is key to any successful search engine optimization, it’s important to remember that ultimately you are writing for other people, not the machines. I am not sure this can be overstated or said to many times. You have to be creating High-quality, readable, and informative content. If you do then you get readers and clicks. If you don’t then you spend your wheels. If you are looking for a long term solution, just remember that Quality wins over quantity in the end. The other thing that this allows you to do is build an online business or following without relying on Google for all your traffic. Outside of blog posting and forum posting. Related Tags Website...

The Power of Joint Venture.

What is a joint venture? Although it is the key to increase your profit and your time off (you sell while you are doing nothing), joint venture is the biggest unused marketing technique. It is a complete win-win situation, and it can be your most powerful tool to succeed online. The reason why people do not start joint venture is that they are intimidated . There is different ways to start a joint venture. Find someone in your niche and try to establish a relationship with him, it is much better than trying to do everything by yourself,...

High Search Rankings Means More Cash

In the internet marketing business there are many different buzzwords that float around and around. Words like "targeted traffic" and "search engine optimization" and "affiliate income." Most of them have a lot to do with the internet search engines, because after all if you can figure out how they operate than you have 99% of the game figured out. Basically if you are selling something than you need buyers, and the portal that the buyers come to your sales page through is almost without exception the search engines. The higher your ...

Best Practices on Google+ for Maximum SEO Benefit

Google + has been with us for a while now, though it has recently become more apparent how Google are planning to incorporate it into search and how it will affect SEO in the long term. With the release of Google’s Search Plus Your World we have started to see the social and search boundaries merge, making it ever more important to be participating socially online in order to get the most out of search. Below are our recommendations for gaining a good presence on Google+ and maximising the SEO value it has to offer: Optimise Your Profile One of the key elements of ranking in the search results pages is the information you provide in the Introduction, Employment, Education and Places sections of your profile, so make sure you fill these in as thoroughly as possible. If you’re looking to rank for a particular phrase then you need to include that in the text somewhere (without being spammy), and ideally in more than one of the different sections. Be the Author Google+...

20 Photoshop Tips & Tricks That You Should Know About

Photoshop is a heck of an amazing software. You can do all kinds of things with images and go as far as your imagination can take you. Once you are past the beginner level and understand what the various options are for and how they work, then you are ready for Photoshop tips and tricks like the ones that are the topic of this 2 part article. They will help you in getting things done quickly, save you a lot of headache and steps and overall inflate your Photoshop-fu! So here we go: Change Brush Size On The Fly If you are even the slightest bit serious about Photoshop or you have used the Brush tool a couple of times, this single tip is worth at least a dozen alone. While you are using the brush tool you do not have to go back to the options palette to change the brush size or softness. Left bracket key ‘[' decreases the brush size and Right bracket key ']‘ increases the brush size. Similarly Shift + [ decrease...

Google Plus Importance to Bloggers

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